Anthony Bogues is a writer, scholar and curator who has published 9 books in the fields of political thought, Caribbean intellectual history and Caribbean art. His current projects are a book titled Black Critique; a sonic project on politics and music in Jamaica during the 1970’s; co-editing some of the unpublished writings of Sylvia Wynter. and editing a volume on Haitian Art. He is the Asa Messer professor of Humanities, Professor of Africana Studies and affiliated professor in the department of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University where he is the inaugural director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. He is also a visiting professor and curator at the University of Johannesburg. Currently he convenes two major historical, art and cultural projects, In Slavery’s Wake with the National African American Museum of History and Culture and the Imagined New: Black Life After Historical Catastrophe, in South Africa. He is also a regular columnist for the South African newspaper, Mail & Guardian.
…historically, fundamental change requires the work of the radical imagination, of thinking a new form of human life is possible. The global Black Lives Matter protest has opened that space, and that is its remarkable significance for the current moment.